In the Christian Science Bible Lesson
December 25, 1902
If you let a single ray of light through the shutter, it will...
Thoreau
with contributions from Roosevelt
If you let a single ray of light through the shutter, it will go on diffusing itself without limit till it enlightens the world; but the shadow that was never so wide at first, as rapidly contracts till it comes to naught.
December 25, 1902
A Marked Illustration
M. E.
Gazing
out of the window of the Century Building just above the arched entrance of massive rock masonry, fixed and unchangeable in its entirety, I saw its reflection in the window of the building opposite.
December 25, 1902
Self Pity
K. S. E.
I had
always been what is termed a healthy woman, quite prosperous, with a good social position and very happy in my family relations.
December 25, 1902
The Careful Use of Words
ROBERT L. ZILLER.
It
has been said that the life of a Christian Scientist should be characterized by an uncommon amount of common sense.
December 25, 1902
The prayer of enlightened faith, by which Christian Science...
Willard S. Mattox
with contributions from Albert E. Miller
The prayer of enlightened faith, by which Christian Science heals, is the prayer which understands or realizes that all good is already accomplished, and that God has never willed that man should be sick, or that he should be a sinner.
December 25, 1902
Recent events have revealed that the public is deeply interested...
J. C. Batts
Recent events have revealed that the public is deeply interested in this new-old religion; that prejudice is gradually yielding to fair judgment; that kindness and generosity find a larger place in the minds of men than heretofore; that the trend of opinion is more or less characterized by justice, and that opposition is confined within comparatively narrow limits.
December 25, 1902
Prove all Things
Florence F. Fullerton
As in the science of mathematics, if we incorporate error or falsity into our statements we find error and falsity in the conclusion, so in our problem of life we must include in our premises only those things which we wish realized in our experience.
December 25, 1902
Suffer it to be so Now
Alfred Farlow
Christian Science
demands absolute perfection of its adherents, and yet they recognize that perfection must come by spiritual growth.
December 25, 1902
Not Mental Suggestion
J. U. Higinbotham
Your
quotations from the scholarly work of George A.
December 25, 1902
Consistency
L. B. C.
The
attempt of denominational editors to misrepresent the Christian Science, when examined in the light of Truth, shows a lack of consistency.
December 18, 1902
Suffering—in Christian Science and Out
EDWARD EVERETT NORWOOD
RECENTLY,
when talking to a patient who had been brought out of a severe trouble and the keen suffering attendant upon it, and who had formerly been through the same experience without the aid of Christian Science, the thought came, what a difference there is in human experience without a knowledge of Christian Science and with it.